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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 06:18 PM Aug 2013

Russian Foreign Minister Tells US To Behave 'Like Grown-Ups' [View all]

Source: Telegraph UK

Sergei Lavrov chided the US administration two days after President Barack Obama scrapped a summit with Mr Putin when Russia granted asylum to Edward Snowden, the fugitive US spy.

"We need to work as grown-ups," he told a press conference in Washington alongside John Kerry, the US Secretary of State. "This is what we do. And we hope that this will be reciprocal".

Mr Obama reacted furiously this week to Russia's approval of temporary asylum for Mr Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor who gave secret documents to the media.

Accusing Moscow of a "slip back into Cold War thinking", the president pulled out of a planned bilateral meeting with Mr Putin in Moscow before the G20 summit in St Petersburg next month.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10234189/Russian-foreign-minister-tells-US-to-behave-like-grown-ups.html

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I am pretty sure Andy823 Aug 2013 #1
You have heard of Russians defecting to the US, right? DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #2
Of course I have Andy823 Aug 2013 #3
Russia has for decades . . . another_liberal Aug 2013 #4
Didn't say it was one sided Andy823 Aug 2013 #8
Why do you think Russia is sifting every phone call, Lugal Zaggesi Aug 2013 #9
I don't think any John2 Aug 2013 #6
As They Arrest LGBT Citizens otohara Aug 2013 #5
yes and FREE PUSSY RIOT uhnope Aug 2013 #7
Dear God NO!!! That would violate the Geneva Convention!!! Xolodno Aug 2013 #10
Regardless their music... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2013 #14
Yay, let's cheer show trials and excessive imprisonment over musical taste! (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #21
Geez...no one can take a joke these days. Xolodno Aug 2013 #22
Human rights abuses are hilarious. ForgoTheConsequence Aug 2013 #23
Too Soon??? Xolodno Aug 2013 #24
Bottom line is....The US goverment has been able to push its wieght around for so long since... Xolodno Aug 2013 #11
I guess he's calling for Obama to put GLBTQ people geek tragedy Aug 2013 #12
I wonder if the US government is urging the Russian government ronnie624 Aug 2013 #16
Nah, Russia just exercises regional hegemony and the occasional massacre geek tragedy Aug 2013 #17
In other words, ronnie624 Aug 2013 #18
No government is perfect, some are more imperfect than others. nt geek tragedy Aug 2013 #19
And we massacred Iraqis NeoConsSuck Aug 2013 #20
Putin's a global dick. But he outscored Obama on this one. O should have kept his cool. toby jo Aug 2013 #13
Word Hydra Aug 2013 #15
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